A (Short) Story

A long time ago, I had a meeting with my boss and the chief architect of the project we were working on.I was the project manager, and the subject of the meeting was how to finalize some decisions that had been up in the air for a while (too long, in my opinion, of course).

The meeting did not go well.I was furious with my colleague and showed it (and said it).Decisions weren’t made.The architect stormed out.

As I got up to leave, my boss said: “I knew you were going to do that.I could tell, the moment you sat down”.

At the time, I was shocked.What had he seen? Was I that obvious? I thought I had gone into the meeting with the simple notion that we should make some decisions quickly. Apparently, things were a bit more complicated.